VectorDB tuning for ZFS
Part 2: Storage Layer Optimization — How I Made ZFS Play Nice with My VectorDB In the world of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), I’ve learned that […]
So I wanted to dive into this AI thing
Update from me: I’ve moved to gaming on CachyOS vs Windows 11 for the last 6 months or so. I’ve been wanting to get back […]
Thinking back on an interview early in my career
Career guidance from a hiring manager long ago
AMD User Experience Proxy and handle leaks
This is an odd fellow here. As you can see in the image below, AUEPMaster has 157k handles. Yesterday it had over 1 million but […]
PSA: Dell Peripheral Manager causes zombie processes
DPM causes zombie processes, software version 2.0.0.72
100,000 Disk Flush events and Windows boot
Disk flushes can have a serious impact on disk throughput, see how one systems boot was increased by 200 seconds as a result of disk flush events.
My latest/last book is out today! Windows 11 for Enterprise Administrators
Was a long time project, an update to the Windows 10 book Manuel, Richard and I wrote a few years ago. Hopefully it’s well received. […]
How to very easily capture a kernel dump in Windows 11 – no tools required
You need to collect a kernel dump from Windows 11 for a support professional, etc
Windows 11 task manager appears to have added this in, simply go to details and right click System and select Create live kernel memory dump file and then select Full live kernel memory dump.
Win11 and Edge – I zip bombed myself
Scenario: I had the pleasure recently of downloading two memory dumps on a Windows 11 machine using normal channel Edge. The ‘problem’ was that these […]
A conversation with ChatGPT 4.0 and I.
For the record, the SDK for the Windows Performance Toolkit is in Github: https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-performance-toolkit-sdk Enjoy User Are you familiar with ETL files and Windows Performance […]